List

At BAVO they have me thinking about why I want to leave the sheltered workplace Promen. I already have fairly large list with items like the kind of work they offer and lack of control about your own work and the large number of people you meet on a daily basis.
This morning I though of an other reason: The lack of independence of most of my colleagues.

Temper

A few days ago one of my mentally impaired colleagues complained that she couldn’t control her temper and how that might lead to her being transferred to a different department. I told her that she should just try.
Which she is doing right now and it seems to be working.

Misconception

This morning I talked to an other colleague. I’ve seen him around a few times in the last few weeks and I actually thought that he also was mentally impaired.
He started complaining about how companies don’t pity people with disabilities anymore. He was fired after doing office work at this company for 30 years. When he started they only had 25 employees and they hired him out of pity. But nowadays they have 600 employees and they bullied him out.

He tried for five years to get an other job but companies just don’t want to have people with a disability.
I arguid that he should find a skill that they would want to pay for. But not only is he 51 years old and doesn’t want to go back to school but above all he is convinced that people don’t pity him anymore.

Mirror

The funny thing is that if he would take one honest look in the mirror he’d know why nobody wants to hire him:
He’s always playing with his dentures and he drools…

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